Russia takes goal at combat of Kursk ‘failure’

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The purple army used T-34 tanks against the Nazis all the way through the fight of Kursk in July 1943SOVFOTO/customary photographs community

Russia's govt and veterans have hit back at a British academic's declare that a noted Soviet tank assault on the Nazis in 1943 changed into an abject failure.

Vladimir Medinsky, the tradition minister, likened Ben Wheatley's fact to these of Nazi generals attempting to twist data about the conflict of their memoirs.

The combat in July 1943 between the crimson military's 5th Guards Tank military and Germany's II SS Panzer Corps become part of the wider fight of Kursk in southwest Russia. It has been portrayed in Moscow as altering the course of the struggle.

Mr Wheatley, an authority on the eastern front at the tuition of East Anglia, found Luftwaffe reconnaissance photos that he says demonstrate greater than 200 Soviet tanks reduced to scrap after…

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